
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, March 30, 1990                   TAG: 9003300269
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: EMORY                                LENGTH: Medium

INDIAN CULTURE TOPIC OF E&H CONFERENCE

A conference on the study of American Indians, their culture and interaction with other cultures will be held today and Saturday at Emory & Henry College through a grant from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy.

It is planned and directed by Michael Puglisi, an expert on ethnohistory who teaches at Emory & Henry. It will concentrate on inter-tribal relations in aboriginal Virginia.

The conference will open at 7:30 tonight with an address by Helen C. Roundtree of Old Dominion University on "Powhatan Inter-Tribal Relations." It will resume Saturday at 9 a.m. with a program on "Native American Cultures in Virginia" by archaeologist E. Randolph Turner; University of Virginia faculty member Jeffrey L. Hantman; and Keith T. Egloff of the Virginia Division of Historic Landmarks.

A separate workshop with each speaker will follow.

Abingdon geologist Charles S. Bartlett Jr. will address a luncheon. The afternoon session at 2 p.m. will feature C. Clifford Boyd Jr., a Radford University faculty member, speaking on cultural contacts in Southwest Virginia, upper East Tennessee and western North Carolina; Jeffrey P. Blick, a doctoral candidate in the University of Pittsburgh anthropology department, on burial rituals; and Michael V. Taylor of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, archaic use of non-native stone in Virginia.

The closing banquet will include a lecture by William P. Boyer of the James Madison University anthropology department on Virginia Indians at the time contact was made with them.

The cost of attending the conference is $10, including the lunch and banquet. - Southwest bureau

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